Social Security data, birth dates, addresses on discs
About 100 computer discs with 1.3 million Chicago voters' Social Security numbers have been distributed to aldermen and ward committeemen, and the whereabouts of at least an additional six CDs with the same information are unknown, according to the Chicago Board of Elections.
it will be difficult, if not impossible, for the Board of Elections to retrieve sensitive data physically scattered on more than 100 discs throughout the area.
The discs also contain voters' birth dates and addresses -- information that along with Social Security numbers can be used to commit identity theft.
Chicago Sun-Times
Blognotes: If Alderman Moore and David Fagus DO have these disc's (and we already know, they'll claim they don't have a copy), what are they doing with the information?
2 comments:
Craig:
On the subjest of houseing. RP has so many condo conversions buildings half full or less. The Tribune story shows another side of houseing issues. Maybe joe can create a new smoke screen & double talk to try to fool the voters.
Public housing shortage is cited
Demand in Illinois is double supply, according to study
By Antonio Olivo
Tribune staff reporter
Published January 22, 2007
A report to be released Monday says the demand for public housing in Illinois is more than twice the number of available units, with waiting lists extending for several years or closed altogether because of a lack of resources.
Now, 63,810 families live inside government apartments around the state, but more than 65,000 additional families are seeking to enter the system, according to an analysis of Illinois housing authority budgets by Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights of Chicago.
Nearly 53,000 families in Illinois are on waiting lists for federally subsidized rent vouchers, commonly known as Section 8, the report states. That number is more than half the number of vouchers currently being used in the state.
The mismatches between supply and demand are due to several factors, including escalating rents in Chicago and other cities, low turnover rates among residents receiving aid and steadily dwindling federal funds dedicated to low-income housing, the report's authors said.
Several of the state's 109 housing authorities have seen their waiting lists balloon in recent years, forcing them to stop accepting applicants because of a lack of resources, said Doug Schenkelberg, associate director of policy for the Heartland Alliance's Mid-America Institute on Poverty. The Chicago Housing Authority, the state's largest housing agency, has closed its waiting lists for public and subsidized housing during its $1.6 billion remake of its public housing.
"You don't want to create a false hope that they'll get a unit," Schenkelberg said about the waiting-list closings. "The federal government has not made housing a high priority, and it needs to."
The group is calling for affordable-housing reforms, such as more funding for Section 8 vouchers, more state revenue for the problem and a national housing trust fund to build more low-income housing in Chicago and elsewhere.
Federal housing officials have generally supported such measures, though in recent years they have argued that funding for public housing and Section 8 vouchers should be redirected toward programs that can make more poor families self-sufficient.
Given the high rate of popoulation turnover in the 49th Ward, undoubtedly the highest rate in the city, Moore and Fagus will be unable to do much with that data. Those records are already, what, more than a year or two old. In a ward like the 49th, all that it would give these scoundrels is data on people they already helped to drive out of the ward. That data also won't have anything on those who have moved into the ward since the discs were made.
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